27th January 2020 The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra with violinist Fumiaki Miura at the Auditorio Víctor Villegas in Murcia

Works by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Strauss at the main auditorium in Murcia

The second event of the 2019-20 Grand Concerts cycle at the Auditorio Víctor Villegas in the city of Murcia features the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada and violinist Fumiaki Miura.

On the programme are Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto and Don Juan and The Knight of the Rose by Strauss.

Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada is not only the resident conductor at the Frankfurt Radio Symphony but also the chief invited conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He was born in Colombia but trained in Vienna and is one of the most widely respected conductors of his generation.

He first rose to international acclaim in 2004 while leading the Tonkünstler orchestra at the Musikverein in Vienna, where he became known as “The Miracle of Vienna”, and has also worked with the Houston Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, the Vienna Philharmonic, the French National, the Münich Philharmonic, the LSO and the Oslo Philharmonic among many others.

Fumiaki Miura, born in Tokyo, trained in his home city before moving to Vienna as a teenager. In 2009 he won the prestigious Joseph Joachim Hannover International Violin Competition, not only the youngest ever winner but also taking the prizes awarded by both critics and audiences.

Since then the range of orchestras with which he has performed includes the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, the Prague Philharmonia, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Conductors he has worked with include Valery Gergiev, Pinchas Zukerman, Krzysztof Penderecki, Kenichiro Kobayashi and Terry Fisher, and his most recent performances include those with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Pinchas Zukerman) and a tour of Japan with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Vasily Petrenko). Last season he collaborated with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Los Ángeles Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Japan Philharmonic and others, as well as presenting his own chamber music festival at Suntory Hall, Fumiaki Miura and Friends.

The 1704 Stradivarius he plays was generously loaned to him by the Munetsugu Foundation.

The concert at the Auditorio Víctor Villegas in Murcia begins at 20.00 with tickets priced at between 25 and 35 euros. Alternatively, this is the second of six events in the 2019 “Grand Concerts” cycle at the auditorium, and season tickets can be purchased for between 101 and 144 euros: click for further information.

Ticket purchase information:

* In the box office of the auditorium on Avenida Primero de Mayo (open September to July between 9.00 and 14.00 Monday to Friday and two hours before performances).

* By telephone on 968 343080 during auditorium box office hours. Credit or debit card payment.

* In the box office of the Filmoteca Regional in Plaza Fontes Murcia, open 18.00 to 21.00 between Tuesday and Saturday.

For full venue details and information regarding other events scheduled at the Auditorio Víctor Villegas go to the English language Murcia Auditorium website or see the feed below.